Exam 2: NUR2063/ NUR 2063 (Latest 2024/ 2025 Update) Pathophysiology | Complete Guide with Questions and Verified Answers| All Modules Covered| 100% Correct| Grade A- Rasmussen

Exam 2: NUR2063/ NUR 2063 (Latest 2024/ 2025 Update) Pathophysiology | Complete Guide with Questions and Verified Answers| All Modules Covered| 100% Correct| Grade A- Rasmussen Q: What are common manifestations of nephrolithiasis? Answer: flank pain; tachycar- dia; hematuria Q: What is a complication of a large renal calculi? Answer: hydronephrosis Q: Hydronephrosis Answer: (excess fluid in the kidney due to a back-up of urine Q: What does obstruction of a ureter by a renal calculus result in? Answer: severe renal colic (waves of sharp intense pain) Q: Glomerulonephritis Answer: bilateral inflammatory disorder of the glomeruli that typi- cally follows a streptococcal infection Q: What is the usual cause of Glomerulonephritis? Answer: Strep infection Q: What are the clinical signs/symptoms of glomerulonephritis? Answer: Acute post-streptococcal infection and dark urine (coffee colored) due to hemolysis of RBCs Q: What causes dark urine in glomerulonephritis? Answer: blood and protein leaking through the capillary into the filtrate and hemolysis of RBCs Q: What is usually present in glomerulonephritis? Answer: Urinary casts Q: Why are urinary casts usually present in glomerulonephritis? Answer: due to in- flamed tubules compressing RBCs and proteins Q: Acute kidney injury Answer: a sudden loss of renal function Q: What are early indications of early stage acute-renal failure? Answer: Very low GFR and increased serum urea Q: What type of AKI may hemorrhage result in? Answer: a prerenal kidney injury Q: Oliguric phase of AKI Answer: phase of acute kidney injury that results in decrease in urine output Q: Decrease in urine output would indicate what phase of an AKI? Answer: oliguric Q: Polycystic kidney disease (PKD numerous grape-like clusters of fluid-filled cysts in both kidneys that results in gradual degeneration of the kidneys Q: Pyelonephritis